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The Lotte Marines’ Roki Sasaki was named the pitcher of the month in Japan’s Pacific League for March and April on Thursday. It was the second monthly honor for the fireballing right-hander. The 21-year-old Sasaki previously won for March and April 2022, when he became Japan’s youngest perfect-game pitcher and […]

LOS ANGELES – Standing less than a mile from Dodger Stadium on a recent Saturday afternoon, Vincent Montalvo could hear the roar of the crowd inside the ballpark. It was Jackie Robinson Day, and more than 50,000 fans were nestling into their seats for a matchup against the Chicago Cubs. […]

Since Shohei Ohtani made his major league debut in 2018, the comparisons to Babe Ruth have been unrelenting. On Tuesday night, the Los Angeles Angels two-way player passed The Babe — at least in the eyes of Major League Baseball. Ohtani’s strikeout of Houston’s Jeremy Pena in the second inning […]

Kitahiroshima, Hokkaido – The Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters said Monday they have acquired switch-hitting infielder Alen Hanson from the Ibaraki Astro Planets of Japan’s independent Baseball Challenge League. The 30-year-old from the Dominican Republic played a total of 261 major league games between 2016 and 2019 for the Pittsburgh Pirates, […]

Japanese baseball’s restrictions on attendance during the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic were a distant memory as nearly 30,000 fans watched the Chiba Lotte Marines host the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks at Zozo Marine Stadium on Friday night. A crowd that size is more than usual for the Marines, but not […]

Newly minted starter Koki Kitayama and four relievers came within one out of a combined no-hitter as the hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters blanked the Seibu Lions 1-0 in the Pacific League on Thursday. Chusei Mannami put the Fighters ahead with his fifth home run of the year in the top […]

Boston – Masataka Yoshida extended his hitting streak to 14 games with a home run as the Boston Red Sox beat the Toronto Blue Jays 11-5 on Thursday to sweep their four-game series. The first-year MLB player’s red-hot hitting coincides with a strong run of results by Boston, which has […]

St. Louis – Shohei Ohtani tied his career high with 13 strikeouts but gave up four runs over five innings in the Los Angeles Angels’ 6-4 comeback win against the St. Louis Cardinals on Wednesday. The two-way star reached 500 career strikeouts in MLB, making him only the second player […]

Yokohama – Former Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer worked seven innings of one-run ball in his much-hyped debut in Japan, leading the DeNA BayStars to a 4-1 Central League win over the Hiroshima Carp on Wednesday. Bauer (1-0) repeatedly got in and out of jams to keep the damage […]

The Tokyo Yakult Swallows were the dominant force in the Central League the past two seasons. The team had a powerful offense led by record-setting slugger Munetaka Murakami and competed in the past two Japan Series — winning the first and losing the second in seven games. It has been […]